Ode To Ceasar Augustus

Roman father of Democracy, Ceasar Augustus, or Gaias Ceasar, ruled Rome and the known world from the age of 19 to 77; from 43 B.C. to 14 A.D., Ceasar Augustus resided in Rome and ruled over a land that spanned from Ireland to Irag wide, and Scotland to Egypt in breadth. This man created the Golden Age of Rome and was in power when Rome was the most advanced city in the world. He fought and conquered countless famous armies including his own Mark Anthony, who temporarily fought for Egypt out of his love for the fallen queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Instead of taking Mark Anthony's life, he spared it and Mark Anthony ended up taking his own life a month later in Egypt by falling on a short dagger; Cleopatra, his foreign wife, followed him into death by holding a viper to her breast and allowing its venomous bite to snub her life short at the approximate age of 19. Ceasar Augustus, or the God's King, created the democratic senate style of government, began the tradition of last will and testaments, erected fountains, aqueducts, the Panthenon, and many other famous architectural designs that still exist in modern Rome today. Gaius Agrippa, his childhood friend and army general, designed the architecture. Though Rome's Golden Age was amazingly peaceful, it came at a huge price.
Ceasar Augustus enacted many laws and held firm to them. Among them was a penalty against adultry in which the criminal was banished from Rome. During his rule, his own daughter was found to be guilty of adultry and defying the marriage that Ceasar Augustus had arranged between her and her step-brother, Tiberius; this marriage secured her sons by his army general, Agrippa, as his heirs to the Roman throne after Agrippa died of a fever. However, his daughter conspired to kill Ceasar Augustus with her lover and ended up with her being banished and her lover put to death. Her two sons stayed in Rome while she was exiled to an island in the Mediterranean. Her two sons ended up dying mysterious deaths shortly after. Ceasar Augustus' uncle and political father was Julius Ceasar. When he was murdered, Ceasar Augustus was in Greece in combat training. He had to journey back to Rome incognito and battle Mark Anthony for his seat at the head of Rome. Once successful, he split Rome into three parts: Ceasar Augustus ruled Rome and its surrounding areas, General Liberius ruled the West which was almost all of modern western europe, and Mark Anthony ruled over the East, including Egypt, home of his beloved Queen Cleopatra. Liberius and Mark Anthony tried to undermine Ceasar Augustus' power by Liberius' embargo of grain and food to Rome and Mark Anthony's refusal to send anymore money to Rome. The two war generals tried to cause the people of Rome to over throw Ceasar Augustus. Fortunately, Ceasar Augustus won over many of the noble families of Rome and had Liberius killed forcing Mark Anthony to renegotiate his position. Ceasar Augustus had Mark Anthony marry his sister so that the deal was sealed with Mark Anthony taking a Roman wife. Cleopatra, being young and jealous threatened Mark Anthony to send his Roman wife back to Rome or fight her army. Mark Anthony obeyed and betrayed Ceasar Augustus and Rome. The betrayal caused Mark Anthony to lose favor with some of Rome's nobility and caused the sacredness of his last will and testament to be waived. Ceasar Augustus exposed the fact that Mark Anthony was leaving all of his money, power, and political rule over one third of the great Roman Empire to Cleopatra and her heirs. This act was enough to have him banished from the Empire for treason, securing the entire Roman Empire under one ruler... Ceasar Augustus. Upon Ceasar Augustus' death in 14 A.D., Tiberius, son of Ceasar Augustus' second wife and first love, but of no blood relation, came to power ending the Golden Age of Rome. At this time, Jesus Christ was 14 years old and living near the sea of Galilea, an area in occupation of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire that Cesar Augustus ruled even contributed to the widest spread religion known on earth, Christianity. The Romans were the people that put Christ to death in the typical Roman style, crucifixion; people were nailed to a large wooden "X" and left to die a slow agonizing death from exposure, dehydration, and starvation as an example to others to obey the Roman rule. Today remnants of the Roman Empire of yesteryear can still be observed in Rome. The Panthenon, Colleseum, Roman Aqueducts, and Government houses still are standing amongst the modern sprawl of Rome, a lasting monument to one of the world's greatest political leaders, Ceasar Augustus.